14 DAY TRIAL // VIA, one of the leading manufacturers of power efficient x86 processor platforms, has announced today the VIA EPIA N700 Nano-ITX board, designed for compact, industrial PC and embedded automation devices.
The platform comes with a 1.5GHz VIA C7 or 500MHz VIA Eden processor and is the company's first Nano-ITX board to feature the latest VIA VX800 media system processor. Furthermore, the compact and user friendly VIA EPNA N700 uses additional onboard ports to enable an easy and perfectly balanced system design.
The model also features two SATA ports, a Gigabit Lan port, a COM port, two USB 2.0 ports and VGA port. There is also support for COM, LVDS and IDE, through onboard pin-headers. The VX800 IGP chipset has been designed to provide the system with DirectX 9-graphics support, through the integrated VIA Chrome 9 graphics core.
The platform is basically the lowest profile Nano-ITX board ever, but it provides a decent number of connectors and features for designing low heat, compact systems, while the VIA VX800 chipset provides support for up to 2GB of DDR 667 system memory.
"The VIA EPIA N700 Nano-ITX board has been specially developed to excel in space constrained environments while offering an extensive feature set based around the VIA VX800," said Daniel Wu, vice president, VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc. "Through listening carefully to customers, we're confident that we've made the VIA EPIA N700 as user friendly as possible."
Pricing information has not been made public yet, but the board is currently offered to developers and will be made available through authorized distributors by mid-September.
VIA has seen an impressive amount of media attention these past weeks, mainly due to the competition between its NANO processor and Intel's Atom, on the blossoming netbook market.